Air Crash Investigations: Tenerife Airport Disaster, the World's Deadliest Plane Crash Ever

Air Crash Investigations: Tenerife Airport Disaster, the World's Deadliest Plane Crash Ever
ISBN-10
0557451795
ISBN-13
9780557451791
Series
Air Crash Investigations
Category
History
Pages
196
Language
English
Published
2010-05
Publisher
Lulu.com
Author
Allistair Fitzgerald

Description

On Sunday, March 27, 1977 KLM Flight 4805 and PANAM Flight 1736 both approached Las Palmas Airport in the Canary Islands, when a terrorist's bomb exploded on the airport. Both flights were diverted to the neighboring island of Tenerife. After Las Palmas Airport reopened first KLM Flight 4805 was cleared for takeoff, a few minutes later PANAM 1736 was cleared. Due to a number of misunderstandings both aircraft collided on the runway of Tenerife Airport during takeoff, killing 583 people.

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